Specifications include, but are not limited to: This Invitation for Bid (IFB) is issued by the TSS Office of State Procurement (TSS OSP) for AETN dba Arkansas PBS to obtain pricing and a contract for a Metadata Unit Manager (MUM) to provide leadership, management, and technical expertise for receiving, metadata, cataloging, and the workflow management of digitized assets in the ARPBS Video Archive. The Department seeks to obtain onsite labor resources to provide assistance in the preparation and shipping of assets to the Contractors for digitization, perform Library of Congress standard inventory and asset management data collection, as well as database creation that will allow for assets to be fully searchable and accessible at project end. ARPBS owns a video tape archive of historical works (“assets”), including finished programs, raw footage, interviews, graphical and audio elements, and miscellaneous other content, dating back to 1966. These works are currently stored in 31 different tape formats of varying length. It is estimated that there are 26,000, 15,000 already inventoried and 10,000 being inventoried, tapes containing approximately 22,553 hours of content to be digitized.
